Table of Contents FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS ..............10 Overview ............................... 10 Features ..............................10 Specifications ............................11 OVERVIEW AND CONTROLS ................. 16 Front Panel ............................16 Rear Panel ............................16 Connection Sample ..........................17 Remote Control ............................ 18 Mouse Control ............................20 Virtual Keyboard &...
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HDD Installation ........................... 23 Rack Installation........................... 24 Connecting Power Supply ........................24 Connecting Video Input and Output Devices .................. 24 3.6.1 Connecting Video Input ........................24 3.6.2 Connecting Video Output ....................... 25 Connecting Audio Input & Output, Bidirectional Audio ..............25 3.7.1 Audio Input ............................
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Schedule ............................... 37 4.4.1 Schedule Menu ............................ 37 4.4.2 Snapshot ............................39 4.4.3 Image FTP ............................41 4.4.4 Snapshot Disk (For special series only) ..................41 Detect ..............................42 4.5.1 Go to Detect Menu ..........................42 4.5.2 Motion Detect ............................42 4.5.3 Video Loss.............................
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Menu Tree ............................55 Main Menu ............................55 Setting ..............................56 5.3.1 General ............................. 56 5.3.2 Encode ............................. 58 5.3.3 Schedule ............................59 5.3.4 RS232 ............................... 59 5.3.5 Network ............................59 5.3.6 Alarm..............................69 5.3.7 Detect ............................... 69 5.3.8 Pan/Tilt/Zoom ..........................69 5.3.9 Display ..............................
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Go to Pan/Tilt/Zoom Menu ......................... 88 6.1.1 3D Intelligent Positioning Key ....................... 88 Preset /Patrol / Pattern /Border Function ..................89 6.2.1 Preset Setup ............................ 90 6.2.2 Activate Preset ..........................90 6.2.3 Patrol Setup ............................. 90 6.2.4 Activate Patrol ..........................90 6.2.5 Pattern Setup ...........................
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Un-install Web Control ........................137 PROFESSIONAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ..........138 FAQ ......................... 139 APPENDIX A HDD CAPACITY CALCULATION ..........144 APPENDIX B COMPATIBLE BACKUP DEVICE LIST........145 APPENDIX C COMPATIBLE CD/DVD DEVICE LIST ..........149 APPENDIX D COMPATIBLE DISPLAYER LIST ..........150 APPENDIX E COMPATIBLE SWITCHER LIST ..........
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Welcome Thank you for purchasing our NVS! This user’s manual is designed to be a reference tool for the installation and operation of your system. Here you can find information about this series NVS features and functions, as well as a detailed menu tree.
Important Safeguards and Warnings 1.Electrical safety All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes. We assume no liability or responsibility for all the fires or electrical shock caused by improper handling or installation. 2.Transportation security Heavy stress, violent vibration or water splash are not allowed during transportation, storage and installation.
1 FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS 1.1 Overview This series product is an excellent digital monitor product designed for security field. It adopts embedded Linux OS to maintain reliable operation. Popular H.264 compression algorithm and G.711 audio compression technology realize high quality, low bit stream. Unique frame by frame play function is suitable for detail analysis.
Support network remote real-time monitor, remote record search and remote PTZ control. Alarm activation function Several relay alarm outputs to realize alarm activation and on-site light control. The alarm input port and output has the protection circuit to guarantee device safety. ...
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Audio Compressio G.711A 4-CH composite video 8-CH composite video 16-CH composite input: (NTSC/PAL) input: (NTSC/PAL) video input: Video Input 7 5Ω) 7 5Ω) BNC (1.0V BNC (1.0V (NTSC/PAL) BNC P- P, P- P, 7 5Ω) (1.0V P- P, 1-ch PAL/NTSC, BNC (1.0VP- P, 75Ω) composite video signal output. Video monitor 1-ch VGA output.
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1-ch audio talk output 1-ch audio talk output 1-ch audio talk output 200- Bidirectional 200-3000mv 5KΩ (BNC) 200-3000mv 5KΩ (BNC) Audio 3000mv 5KΩ (RCA) 2 built-in SATA port. Support 2 HDDs. Hard Disk Audio:PCM 28.8MByte/h Hard Disk Hard disk Occupation Video:56-900MByte/h Manual recording, motion detection recording, schedule recording and Recording...
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Manual Enable or disable alarm input channel Alarm Support analog alarm signal to specific alarm output channel. Control 16-ch alarm input 4-ch alarm input(You 8-ch alarm input(You (You can set can set normal open or can set normal open or normal close type to normal close type to normal open or...
2 Overview and Controls This section provides information about front panel and rear panel. When you install this series NVS for the first time, please refer to this part first. 2.1 Front Panel The front panel is shown as in Figure 2-1. Figure 2-1 Please refer to the following sheet for front panel button information.
Figure 2-2 The 16-channel series NVS rear panel is shown as below. See Figure 2-3. Figure 2-3 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Video input Audio input Video spot output Video CVBS output Bidirectional talk input Audio output Network port USB port HDMI port...
Figure 2-4 2.4 Remote Control The remote control interface is shown as in Figure 2-5. Please note remote control is not our standard accessory and it is not included in the accessory bag.
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Figure 2-5 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Serial Number Name Function Power button Click it to boot up or shut down the device. Address Click it to input device number, so that you can control it. Forward Various forward speeds and normal speed playback.
Cancel Go back to previous menu or cancel current operation (close upper interface or control) Record Start or stop record manually In record interface, working with the direction buttons to select the record channel. Click this button for at least 1.5 seconds, system can go to the Manual Record interface.
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In input box, you can select input methods. Left click the corresponding button on the panel you can input numeral/English character (small/capitalized). Here ← stands for backspace button. _ stands for space button. In English input mode: _stands for input a backspace icon and ← stands for deleting the previous character.
2.6 Virtual Keyboard & Front Panel 2.6.1 Virtual Keyboard The system supports two input methods: numeral input and English character (small and capitalized) input. Move the cursor to the text column, the text is shown as blue, input button pops up on the right. Click that button to switch between numeral input and English input (capitalized and small), Use >...
3 Installation and Connections Note: All the installation and operations here should conform to your local electric safety rules. 3.1 Check Unpacked NVS When you receive the NVS from the forwarding agent, please check whether there is any visible damage. The protective materials used for the package of the NVS can protect most accidental clashes during transportation.
7. Put the cover in accordance 8. Secure the screws in the with the clip and then place the rear panel and the side panel. upper cover back. Important: If the HDD amount is less than four, you do not need to install the HDD bracket. When there is a bracket, please make sure the installation direction of HDDs is the same.
The camera shall be installed in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight, inflammable, explosive substances and etc. The camera and the NVS should have the same grounding to ensure the normal operation of the camera. Guarantee stability and reliability of the transmission line B T T T B Please use high quality, sound shielded BNC.
3.8 Alarm Input and Output Connection Please refer to the following sheet for alarm input and output connection. There are two alarm input types for you to select: normal open (NO) and normal close (NC). 1. Alarm input a. Please make sure alarm input mode is grounding alarm input. b.
In the second line, ALARM 1 to ALARM 8. The alarm becomes active in low voltage. from the left to the right,: 1,2,3,4, 5,6,7,8. In the first line, from There are three groups of normal open activation output (on/off the left to the right: button) 1-NO C,2-NO C,...
Use the same ground with that of NVS if you use external power to the alarm device. Figure 3-3 3.8.3 Alarm Output Port Provide power to peripheral alarm device. To avoid overloading, please read the following relay parameters sheet carefully. ...
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The series NVS also support NKB operation. You can operate the NVS from the keyboard controls instead of using the control pad on the front panel of the unit. To connect a NKB keyboard to the NVS: 1. Assemble the KBD keyboard according to the instructions in its accompanying installation manual. 2.
4 Overview of Navigation and Controls Note: All the operations listed below are based on the 2U series product. Before operation, please make sure: You have properly installed HDD and all the cable connections. The provided input power and the device power are matched. ...
Figure 4-2 4.1.2 Main Menu After you logged in, the system main menu is shown as below. See Figure 4-3. There are total six icons: search, information, setting, backup, advanced and shutdown. You can move the cursor to highlight the icon, and then double click mouse to enter the sub- menu.
The other ways is to press power button on the front panel for at least 3 seconds, system will stop all operations. Then you can click the power button in the rear panel to turn off the NVS. 4.1.4 Auto Resume after Power Failure The system can automatically backup video and resume previous working status after power failure.
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There are two ways for you to go to manual record menu. Right click mouse or in the main menu, Advanced->Manual Record. In live viewing mode, click record button in the front panel or record button in the remote control.
Figure 4-9 All channel manual record Please highlight “ALL” after “Manual.” See Figure 4-10. When system is in manual recording, all scheduled set up you have set in will be null ((Main menu->Setting->Schedule)). You can see indication light in front panel turns on, system begins manual record now. Figure 4-10 4.2.2.5 Stop all channel recording Please highlight “ALL”...
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Figure 4-12 Please refer to the following sheet for more information. Name Function Here is to display the searched picture or file. Display Support 1/4/9/16-window playback. window Here you can select to search the picture or the recorded file. Search When there is displayed picture on the left pane, you can type set the corresponding setup...
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Double click it, you can view the picture/record file list of current day. The file list is to display the first channel of the record file. The system can display max 128 files in one time. Use the / or the mouse to view the file.
unit zoom rate. You can accurately set the time in the time bar to playback the record. The time bar is beginning with 0 o'clock when you are setting the configuration. The time bar zooms in the period of the current playback time when you are playing the file.
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Snapshot: You can enable this function to snapshoot image when alarm occurs. Record types: There are four types: regular, motion detection (MD), Alarm, MD & alarm. Please highlight icon to select the corresponding function. After completing all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu.
After all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. Figure 4-14 Playback or search in the redundant disk. There are two ways for you to playback or search in the redundant disk. Set redundant disk(s) as read-only disk or read-write disk (Main menu->Advanced->HDD management).
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Figure 4-15 4.4.2.2 Activation Snapshot Please follow the steps listed below to enable the activation snapshot function. After you enabled this function, system can snapshot when the corresponding alarm occurred. In Encode interface, click snapshot button to input snapshot mode, size, quality and frequency.
4.4.2.3 Priority Please note the activation snapshot has the higher priority than schedule snapshot. If you have enabled these two types at the same time, system can activate the activation snapshot when alarm occurs, and otherwise system just operates the schedule snapshot. 4.4.3 Image FTP In Network interface, you can set FTP server information.
You can search the corresponding images via Web. See Figure 4-19. Select a file and then click here to view image content. Select search engine here You can see result here. Double click file name, you can view the image content.
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Sensitivity: System supports 6 levels. The sixth level has the highest sensitivity. Show message: System can pop up a message to alarm you in the local host screen if you enabled this function. Alarm upload: System can upload the alarm signal to the network (including alarm centre) if you enabled current function.
In Figure 4-20, select video loss from the type list. You can see the interface is shown as in Figure 4-25.This function allows you to be informed when video loss phenomenon occurred. You can enable alarm output channel and then enable show message function. Tips: You can enable preset activation operation when video loss occurs.
4.6 Alarm Setup and Alarm Activation Before operation, please make sure you have properly connected alarm devices such as buzzer. 4.6.1 Go to alarm setup interface In the main menu, from Setting to Alarm, you can see alarm setup interface. See Figure 4-27. 4.6.2 Alarm setup Alarm interface is shown as below.
NVS support USB device backup and network download. Here we introduce USB backup. You can refer to Chapter 7 Web Client Operation for network download backup operation. 4.7.1 Detect Device Click backup button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 4-31. Here is for you to view devices information.
Click backup button, system begins burning. At the same time, the backup button becomes stop button. You can view the remaining time and process bar at the left bottom. File format: Click the file format; you can see there are two options: DAV/ASF. ...
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Channel: select the current camera channel. Protocol: select corresponding PTZ protocol(such as PELCOD) Address: default address is 1. Baud rate: select corresponding baud rate. Default value is 9600. Data bits: select corresponding data bits. Default value is 8. ...
Figure 4-36 In Figure 4-36, please click direction arrows (See Figure 4-37) to adjust PTZ position. There are total 8 direction arrows. Figure 4-37 4.8.3 3D Intelligent Positioning Key In the middle of the eight direction arrows, there is a 3D intelligent positioning key. SeeFigure 4-38.
Figure 4-39 Figure 4-36, click page switch button, the interface is shown as in Figure 4-40. X 3 2 8 H 3 2 8 H 3 2 8 H Here you can activate the following functions: Preset Tour ...
Figure 4-41 4.9.2 Activate Preset In Figure 4-40, please input preset number in the No. blank, and click preset button. 4.9.3 Patrol setup (Tour Setup) In Figure 4-38, click patrol button. The interface is shown as in Figure 4-42.Input preset number and add this preset to a patrol (tour).
4.9.7 Auto Scan Setup Figure 4-38, click border button. The interface is shown as in Figure 4-43. X 3 4 7 H 3 4 7 H 3 4 7 H X 3 4 8 H 3 4 8 H 3 4 8 H Please go to F igure 4-35, use direction arrows to select camera left limit X 3 4 9 H 3 4 9 H 3 4 9 H...
5 Understanding of Menu Operations and Controls 5.1 Menu Tree This series NVS menu tree is shown as below. Backup Information HDD Info Version Online Users Setting General Encode Schedule RS232 Menu Network Alarm Detect Pan/ Tilt/Zoom Display Default Search Advanced HDD Management Alarm Output...
Figure 5-1 5.3 Setting In main menu, highlight setting icon and double click mouse. System setting interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-2. Figure 5-2 5.3.1 General General setting includes the following items. See F igure 5-3 X 3 5 7 H 3 5 7 H 3 5 7 H ...
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while the next HDD is no empty, then system stops recording, If the current HDD is full and then next HDD is not empty, then system overwrites the previous files. Pack duration: Here is for you to specify record duration. The value ranges from 60 to 120 minutes.
5.3.2 Encode Encode setting includes the following items. See Figure 5-6. Please note some series do not support extra stream. Channel: Select the channel you want. Type: Please select from the dropdown list. There are three options: regular/motion detect/alarm.
Figure 5-7 5.3.3 Schedule Please refer to chapter 4.4 schedule. 5.3.4 RS232 RS232 interface is shown as below. There are five items. See Figure 5-8. Function: There are various devices for you to select. Console is for you to use the COM or mini-end software to upgrade or debug the program.
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Network Mode : Includes multiple access, fault tolerance, and load balancing Network Name: Please select eth0/eth1/bond0(optional) after multiple access function enabled. Main Network Card: Please select eth0/eth1(optional).after enable multiple access function. IP address: Here you can input IP address. ...
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Figure 5-10 5.3.5.1 Advanced Setup Advanced setup interface is shown as in Figure 5-11. Please draw a circle to enable corresponding function and then double click current item to go to setup interface. Figure 5-11 5.3.5.2 IP Filter IP filter interface is shown as in Figure 5-12. You can add IP in the following list. The list supports max 64 IP addresses.
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Figure 5-12 5.3.5.3 NTP Setup You need to install SNTP server (Such as Absolute Time Server) in your PC first. In Windows XP OS, you can use command ―net start w32time‖ to boot up NTP service. NTP setup interface is shown as in Figure 5-13. ...
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Figure 5-13 5.3.5.4 Multiple Cast Setup Multiple-cast setup interface is shown as in Figure 5-14. Figure 5-14 Here you can set a multiple cast group. Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. IP multiple cast group address -224.0.0.0-239.255.255.255 -―D‖...
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Except the above mentioned addresses of special meaning, you can use other addresses. For example: Multiple cast IP: 235.8.8.36 Multiple cast PORT: 3666. After you logged in the Web, the Web can automatically get multiple cast address and add it to the multiple cast groups.
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Figure 5-16 Please note NNDS type includes: CN99 DDNS、NO-IP DDNS、Private DDNS、Dyndns DDNS and sysdns DDNS. All the DDNS can be valid at the same time, you can select as you requirement. Private DDNS function shall work with special DDNS server and special Professional Surveillance Software (PSS).
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For the TCP and UDP, please make sure the internal port and external port are the same to guarantee the proper data transmission. Figure 5-17 Figure 5-18 5.3.5.8 Email The email interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-19. SMTP server: Please input your email SMTP server IP here.
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Interval: Please check the above box to enable this function and then set the corresponding interval. System can send out the email regularly as you set here. Click the Test button, you can see the corresponding dialogue box to see the email connection is OK or not. See Figure 5-20.
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Figure 5-21 You can use a PC or FTP login tool to test setup is right or not. For example, you can login user ZHY to F TP://10.10.7.7 and then test it can modify or delete H 1 4 0 H 1 4 0 H 1 4 0 H T U U T H folder or not.
Figure 5-23 Figure 5-24 5.3.5.10 Alarm Centre This interface is reserved for you to develop. 5.3.6 Alarm Please refer to chapter 4.6 Alarm Setup and Activation. 5.3.7 Detect Please refer to chapter 4.5 Detect. 5.3.8 Pan/Tilt/Zoom The pan/tilt/zoom setup includes the following items. Please select channel first. See Figure 5-25. ...
Figure 5-25 5.3.9 Display Display setup interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-26. Transparency: Here is for you to adjust transparency. The value ranges from 128 to 255. Channel name: Here is for you to modify channel name. System max support 25-digit (The value may vary due to different series).
Figure 5-26 In Figure 5-26, click modify button after channel. You can see an interface is shown as in Figure 5-27. Please note all your modification here applies to local end only. You need to refresh web or client-end to get the latest channel name. System max support 25-digital character. Figure 5-27 In tour mode, you can see the following interface.
Click default icon, system pops up a dialogue box. You can highlight to restore default factory setup. See F igure 5-26. X 3 8 1 H 3 8 1 H 3 8 1 H Select all General Encode ...
Figure 5-30 5.5.1 HDD Management Here is for you to view and implement hard disk management. See Figure 5-31. You can see current HDD type, status, capacity and record time. When HDD is working properly, system is shown as O. When HDD error occurred, system is shown as X. ...
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Figure 5-32 For the HDD group setup operation, please note: Each channel’s records can be stored into the specified HDD Group. Each HDD Group is corresponding to several hard disks, while one hard disk is only included in one HDD Group. ...
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Figure 5-33 In Figure 5-34, you can see the 6th and 7th position hard disks both belong to HDD Group 2. Important Once you change the HDD Group settings, system will pack the records and snapshots, and then reboot. Figure 5-34 Channels Setting Click the button named with ―Channels Settings‖...
The Figure 5-35 and Figure 5-36 show that channels 1 to 16 are associated to HDD Group NO 1, and channels 17 to 32 are associated to HDD Group NO 2. Therefore the records of channels 1 to 16 are stored into the hard disk(s) which belong to HDD Group NO 1, and the records of channels 17 to 32 are stored into the hard disk(s) which belong to HDD Group NO 2.
Figure 5-37 5.5.3 Alarm Output Here is for you to set proper alarm output. Please highlight icon to select the corresponding alarm output. After all the setups please click OK button, system goes back to the previous menu. See Figure 5-38.
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For the user account name and the user group, the string max length is 6-byte. The backspace in front of or at the back of the string is invalid. There can be backspace in the middle. The string includes the valid character, letter, number, underline, subtraction sign, and dot.
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Figure 5-40 5.5.5.2 Add/Modify Group Click add group button, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-41. Here you can input group name and then input some memo information if necessary. There are total 60 rights such as control panel, shut down, real-time monitor, playback, record, record file backup, PTZ, user account, system information view, alarm input/output setup, system setup, log view, clear log, upgrade system, control device and etc.
Figure 5-42 5.5.6 Auto Maintain Here you can set auto-reboot time and auto-delete old files setup. You can set to delete the files for the specified days. See Figure 5-43. You can select proper setup from dropdown list. After all the setups please click save button, system goes back to the previous menu. Figure 5-43 5.5.7 TV Adjust Here is for you to adjust TV output setup.
Figure 5-44 5.5.8 Video Matrix Here you can set matrix output channel and its interval. See Figure 5-45. It can support the 1/4/9/16-window sport tour and you can specify the interval. Figure 5-45 5.5.9 Card Overlay The card overlay function is for financial areas. It includes Sniffer, information analysis and title overlay function.
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Overlay mode: There are two options: preview and encode. Preview means overlay the card number in the local monitor video. Encode means overlay the card number in the record file. Overlay Position: Here you can select the proper overlay position from the dropdown list. Figure 5-46 5.5.9.2 Network Type The network type interface is shown as below.
Figure 5-48 Click Data button you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 5-49. Here you can set offset value, length, title according to your communication protocol and data package. . Figure 5-49 5.5.10 Config File Backup The configuration file backup interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-50. This function allows you to copy current system configuration to other devices.
5.6 Information Here is for you to view system information. There are total five items: HDD (hard disk information), BPS (data stream statistics), Log and version, and online user. See Figure 5-51. Figure 5-51 5.6.1 HDD Information Here is to list hard disk type, total space, free space, video start time and status. See See Figure X 3 9 1 H 3 9 1 H 3 9 1 H 5-52.○...
Tips: Please click Fn button or left click mouse to view HDD record time and HDD type and time. 5.6.2 BPS Here is for you to view current video data stream (KB/s) and occupied hard disk storage (MB/h). See Figure 5-53. Figure 5-53 5.6.3 Log Here is for you to view system log file.
Click the Details button or double click the log item, you can view the detailed information. See Figure 5-55. Figure 5-55 5.6.4 Version Here is for you to view some version information. See Figure 5-56. Channel Alarm in ...
Figure 5-57 5.7 Shutdown Double click shutdown button, system pops up a dialogue box for you to select. See Figure 5-58 Logout menu user: log out menu. You need to input password when you login the next time. Restart application: reboot NVS.
6 About Auxiliary Menu 6.1 Go to Pan/Tilt/Zoom Menu In the one-window surveillance mode, right click mouse (click ―fn‖ Button in the front panel or click AUX key in the remote control). The interface is shown as below: See F igure 6-1 X 3 9 7 H 3 9 7 H 3 9 7 H Figure 6-1 Click Pan/Tilt/Zoom, the interface is shown as in...
In the middle of the eight direction arrows, there is a 3D intelligent positioning key. See F igure X 4 0 1 H 4 0 1 H 4 0 1 H . Please make sure your protocol supports this function and you need to use mouse to control.
Figure 6-6 6.2.1 Preset Setup Note: The following setups are usually operated in the F igure 6-2 F igure 6-5 F igure 6-6 X 4 0 5 H 4 0 5 H 4 0 5 H X 4 0 6 H 4 0 6 H 4 0 6 H X 4 0 7 H 4 0 7 H 4 0 7 H F igure 6-2 , use eight direction arrows to adjust camera to the proper position.
You can memorize all these setups as pattern 1. Figure 6-9 6.2.6 Activate Pattern Function F igure 6-6 input mode value in the No. blank, and click pattern button. X 4 1 9 H 4 1 9 H 4 1 9 H 6.2.7 Border Setup F igure 6-5 , click border button.
7 WEB CLIENT OPERATION There might be slightly difference in the interface due to different series. 7.1 Network Connection Before web client operation, please check the following items: Network connection is right NVS and PC network setup is right. Please refer to network setup(main menu->setting- >network) ...
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Figure 7-2 After installation, the interface is shown as below. See F igure 7-3 X 4 3 0 H 4 3 0 H 4 3 0 H Please input your user name and password. Default factory name is admin and password is admin. Note: For security reasons, please modify your password after you first login.
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Section 1: there are five function buttons: configuration (chapter 7.3), search (chapter 7.4), alarm (chapter 7.5), about (chapter 7.6), log out (chapter 7.7). Section 2: there are channel number and three function buttons: start dialog and local play, refresh.
7.2.1 Real-time Monitor In section 2, left click the channel name you want to view, you can see the corresponding video in current window. On the top left corner, you can view device IP, channel number, network monitor bit stream. Figure 7-7 On the top right corer, there are six unction buttons.
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Figure 7-9 Open All You can click it to open all channels. Refresh You can use button to refresh camera list. Start Dialogue You can click this button to enable audio talk. Click 【▼】 to select bidirectional talk mode. There are two options: DEFAULT/G711a. Please note, the audio input port from the device to the client-end is using the first channel audio input port.
Figure 7-10 7.2.2 PTZ Before PTZ operation, please make sure you have properly set PTZ protocol. (Please refer to chapter 7.3.2 Setting-> Pan/Tilt/Zoom). Click PTZ button, the interface is shown as in F igure 7-11 X 4 3 7 H 4 3 7 H 4 3 7 H 3D Intelligent Positioning You can click this icon to display or hide the PTZ...
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Click 3D intelligent positioning key, system goes back to the single screen mode. Drag the mouse in the screen to adjust section size. It can realize PTZ automatically. 7.2.2.2 Speed System supports eight-level speed. You can select from the dropdown list. Speed 2 is faster than speed 1.
You can select the assistant item from the dropdown list. See F igure 7-13 X 4 4 3 H 4 4 3 H 4 4 3 H 7.2.2.9 Matrix This series product supports matrix extension function. You can control the video input and output switch 7.2.2.10 Light and wiper If your PTZ protocol supports the light and wiper control function.
Figure 7-15 Click the record item; you can see there are two options: DAV/ASF. Click picture path button, you can see an interface is shown as in F igure 7-16 X 4 4 7 H 4 4 7 H 4 4 7 H Please click choose button to modify path.
7.3.1 System Information 7.3.1.1 Version Information Here you can view device hardware feature and software version information. See F igure 7-19 X 4 4 9 H 4 4 9 H 4 4 9 H Figure 7-19 7.3.1.2 HDD information Here you can view local storage status and network status including, free capacity and total capacity.
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7.3.1.3 Log Here you can view system log. See F igure 7-21 X 4 5 1 H 4 5 1 H 4 5 1 H Figure 7-21 Click backup button, the interface is shown as in F igure 7-22 X 4 5 2 H 4 5 2 H 4 5 2 H Figure 7-22 Please refer to the following sheet for log parameter information.
Parameter Function Select one item and click this button, you can view the detailed log More information. details You can click this button to backup log files to current PC. Backup 7.3.2 System Configuration Please click save button to save your current setup. 7.3.2.1 General Setup Here you can set system time, record length, video format and etc.
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Figure 7-25 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Here is for you to modify system time. Please click Save button after System your completed modification Time Sync PC You can click this button to save the system time as your PC current time.
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Figure 7-26 Figure 7-27 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Here is for you to select a monitor channel. Channel Here is to display current channel name. You can modify it. Channel Name Compression H.264 It includes main stream, motion stream and alarm stream.
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Parameter Function Audio/Video For the main stream, recorded file only contains video by default. You need to draw a circle here to enable audio function. For extra stream, you need to draw a circle to select the video first and then select the audio if necessary.
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If you have completed the setup for channel 1, you can click 3 to copy current setup to channel 3. Or you can click 2, 3, and 4 to copy current setup to channel 2, channel 3 and channel 4. Figure 7-28 7.3.2.3 Schedule Here you can set different periods for various days.
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Figure 7-30 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Please select a channel first. Channel Pre-record Please input pre-record value here. System can record the three to five seconds video before activating the record operation into the file. (Depends on data size). Setup ...
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Figure 7-31 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function RS232 There are two options: COM 01 and keyboard. Console is to upgrade the program or debug via COM or Function mini terminal software. Keyboard: COM control protocol. You can use keyboard to control NVS via COM.
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Figure 7-32 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Network Mode Includes multiple access, fault tolerance, and load balancing Default Network Please select eth0/eth1/bond0(optional) after enable multiple Card access function Ethernet Please select eth0/eth1(optional).after enable multiple access function.
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Figure 7-33 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Input server address and then enable this function. SMTP Server Port Input port value here. The sender email account user name. User Name The sender email account password. Password Sender email address.
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Figure 7-34 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function You can select DDNS protocol from the dropdown list and then Server Type enable DDNS function. The private DDNS protocol means you use your self-defined private protocol to realize DDNS function. Server IP DDNS server IP address Server Port...
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Figure 7-35 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Please select network storage protocol and then enable NAS enable NAS function. Server IP Input remote storage server IP address. Input Remote storage server port number. Port Log in user account.
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transmission only and its port shall be 123.The update interval ranges from 1 to 65535. Default value is 10 minutes. Figure 7-36 You can refer to the following sheet for time zone information. City /Region Name Time Zone London GMT+0 Berlin GMT+1 Cairo...
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Figure 7-37 Advanced The advanced interface is shown as in Figure 7-38. Multiple cast Please refer to chapter 5.3.5.3 for detailed multiple cast setup information. PPPoE Please input the PPPoE user name and password you get from the IPS (internet service provider) and enable PPPoE function.
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UNPN Go to the UPnP interface, you can see an image is shown as in Figure 3-39. It allows you to establish the mapping relationship between the LAN and the public network. Here you can also add, modify or remove UPnP item. Figure 7-39 UNPN 7.3.2.6 Alarm Alarm setup interface is shown as in Figure 7-40.
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Figure 7-40 Figure 7-41 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Event It includes local alarm/network alarm. Type Local alarm: Device detects alarm from input port. Network: Device detects alarm from network. Alarm in Select corresponding alarm channel. Enable You need to draw a circle here so that system can detect the alarm signal.
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Parameter Function Tour Display the selected video in local monitor window. Tour interval and tour mode are set in NVS local menu (chapter 5.3.9 Display ) Here you can set PTZ movement when alarm occurs. Such as go to activation preset x when there is an alarm.
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Figure 7-43 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Event There are three types: Motion detection/video loss/Camera Masking. Type Channel Select channel name from the dropdown list. Enable You need to draw a circle to enable motion detection function. There are six levels.
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Parameter Function System can delay the alarm output for specified time after alarm ended. Alarm The value ranges from 1s to 300s. latch Show System pops up the alarm messages in the monitor interface. message Buzzer Once you check the box here, the buzzer beeps when an alarm occurred.
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Figure 7-44 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function You can select monitor channel from the dropdown list. . Channel Select the corresponding dome protocol.(such as PELCOD) Protocol Set corresponding dome address. Default value is 1. Please note your Address setup here shall comply with your dome address;...
Figure 7-45 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Select All Restore factory default setup. Export Export system configuration to local PC. Configuration Import Import configuration from PC to the system. Configuration 7.3.3 Advanced 7.3.3.1 HDD Management HDD management includes net storage management and local storage management.
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Figure 7-46 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Format Clear data in the disk. Read/write Set current disk as read/write Read only Set current disk as read. Redundant Set current disk as redundant disk. Recover Recover dada after error occurs.
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Figure 7-47 Important The alarm output port should not be connected to high power load directly (It shall be less than 1A) to avoid high current which may result in relay damage. Please use the co contactor to realize the connection between the alarm output port and the load. Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
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Figure 7-48 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function System enables auto record function as you set in record schedule Auto setup. Enable corresponding channel to record no matter what period Manual applied in the record setup. Stop current channel record no matter what period applied in the Stop record setup.
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Figure 7-49 7.3.3.5 Auto Maintenance Here you can select auto reboot and auto delete old files interval from the dropdown list. See Figure 7-50. Figure 7-50 7.3.3.6 Snapshot Snapshot interface is shown as in Figure 7-51.
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Figure 7-51 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Channel It is the monitor channel. There are two modes: Timing and activation. Snapshot mode You can select from the dropdown list. The value ranges from Frame rate 1f/s to 7f/s.
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Figure 7-52 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Parameter Function Event The abnormal events include: no disk, no space, disk error, net error. Type You need to draw a circle to enable this function. Normal The corresponding alarm activation output channel when alarm occurs, There are six channels.
Figure 7-53 7.3.4 Additional Function 7.3.4.1 Preferred DNS Here you can set server or local operator DNS address. See Figure 7-54. Figure 7-54 7.3.4.2 Card Overlay Tit is the same with the card overlay function (chapter 5.5.9). It is mainly for financial areas to Sniffer, information parse and character overlay.
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Destination IP refers to other systems that receive information. There are total four groups IP. The record channel applies to one group (optional) only. Six frame ID groups verification can guarantee information validity and legal. The start position, length and data can be set according to your protocol and data packet. There are total four fields.
Parameter Function Enable Enable auto register function. Device management server number. Device management server IP address. Port Server port number. Device ID Device ID in the device management server. 7.4 Search Click search button, you can see an interface is shown as in F igure 7-57.
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Figure 7-58 Now you can see system begins download and the download button becomes stop button. You can click it to terminate current operation. At the bottom of the interface, there is a process bar for your reference. See Figure 7-59. Figure 7-59 When download completed, you can see a dialogue box shown as in Figure 7-60.
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Figure 7-60 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Type Parameter Function Type Record Search general record, alarm record and motion detection record. Alarm Search alarm record. Motion Search motion detection record. Detection Local Search local record. Snapshot Search snapshot file.
2: Pause 3: Stop 4: Slow play 5: Fast play Playback device IP address and channel number. Playback control bar Figure 7-61 7.5 Alarm Click alarm function, you can see an interface is shown as in F igure 7-62. X 4 8 3 H 4 8 3 H 4 8 3 H Here you can set device alarm type and alarm sound setup.
Figure 7-62 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. Please make sure current device can upload the alarm. Type Parameter Function Alarm Video loss System alarms when video loss occurs. Type Motion detection System alarms when motion detection alarm occurs, Disk full System alarms when disk is full.
Figure 7-63 7.7 Log out Click log out button, system goes back to log in interface. See Figure 7-64. You need to input user name and password to login again. Figure 7-64 7.8 Un-install Web Control You can use web un-install tool ―uninstall web.bat‖ to un-install web control. Please note, before you un-installation, please close all web pages, otherwise the un- installation might result in error.
8 Professional Surveillance System Besides Web, you can use our Professional Surveillance Software (PSS) to login the device. For detailed information, please refer to PSS user’s manual.
9 FAQ 1. NVS can not boot up properly. There are following possibilities: Input power is not correct. Power connection is not correct. Power switch button is damaged. Program upgrade is wrong. HDD malfunction or something wrong with HDD ribbon. ...
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NVS color or brightness setup is not correct. 6. Can not search local records. There are following possibilities: HDD ribbon is damaged. HDD is broken. Upgraded program is not compatible. The recorded file has been overwritten. ...
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PTZ decoder and NVS address is not compatible. When there are several decoders, please add 120 Ohm between the PTZ decoder A/B cables furthest end to delete the reverberation or impedance matching. Otherwise the PTZ control is not stable. ...
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System uses too much CPU resources. Please stop record first and then begin backup. Data amount exceeds backup device capacity. It may result in burner error. Backup device is not compatible. Backup device is damaged. 17. Keyboard can not control NVS. There are following possibilities: ...
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There is no DivX503Bundle.exe control when you play the file transformed to AVI via media player. No DivX503Bundle.exe or ffdshow-2004 1012 .exe in Windows XP OS. 23. Forget local menu operation password or network password Please contact your local service engineer or our sales person for help. We can guide you to solve this problem.
Appendix A HDD Capacity Calculation Calculate total capacity needed by each NVS according to video recording (video recording type and video file storage time). Step 1: According to Formula (1) to calculate storage capacity that is the capacity of each channel needed for each hour, unit Mbyte.
Appendix B Compatible Backup Device List Compatible USB drive list NOTE: Please upgrade the NVS firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below. If you use the USB drive, please confirm the format FAT or FAT32. Manufacturer Model Capacity...
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Compatible SD Card List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible SD card brand. Brand Standard Capacity Card type Transcend SDHC6 16GB Kingston SDHC4 Kingston Kingston Sandisk SDHC2 Micro-SD Sandisk Micro-SD Compatible Portable HDD List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible portable HDD brand. Brand Model Capacity...
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Seagate Barracuda.10 ST3500630AS 500G SATA Seagate Barracuda.10 ST3400620AS 400G SATA Seagate Barracuda.10 ST3320620AS 320G SATA Seagate Barracuda.10 ST3250620AS 250G SATA Seagate Barracuda.10 ST3250820AS 250G SATA Seagate Barracuda.10 ST3160815AS 160G SATA Seagate Barracuda.10 ST380815AS SATA Seagate Barracuda.9 ST3160811AS2 160G SATA Seagate Barracuda.9 ST3120811AS2 120G...
APPENDIX C Compatible CD/DVD Device List NOTE: Please upgrade the NVS firmware to latest version to ensure the accuracy of the table below. And you can use the USB cable with the model recommended to set USB burner. Manufacturer Model Port Type Type Sony...
Appendix E Compatible Switcher List Please refer to the following sheet form compatible switcher list. Brand Model Network Working Mode D-LinK DES-1016D 10/100M self-adaptive D-LinK DES-1008D 10/100M self-adaptive There are five network modes: 1、AUTO 2、HALF-10M Ruijie RG-S1926S 3、FULL-10M 4、HALF-100M 5、FULL-100M H3C-S1024 10/100M self-adaptive TP-LINK...
Appendix F Compatible Wireless Mouse List Please refer to the following sheet for compatible SD card brand. Brand Model Rapoo 3500 Logitech M215 Shuangfeiyan Tianyao G7-630...
Appendix G Earthing 1. What is the surge? Surge is a short current or voltage change during a very short time. In the circuit, it lasts for microsecond. In a 220V circuit, the 5KV or 10KV voltage change during a very short time (about microseconds) can be called a surge.
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work. The signal lightning arrester has many specifications, and widely used in many devices such as telephone, network, analog communication, digital communication, cable TV and satellite antenna. For all the input port, especially those from the outdoor, you need to install the signal lightning arrester. ...
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Mixed ground: The mix ground consists of the feature of the one-point ground and multiple-point ground. For example, the power in the system needs to use the one-point ground mode while the radio frequency signal requires the multiple-point ground. So, you can use the following figure to earth.
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For 220V AC socket, from the top to the bottom, E (ground cable), N (neutral cable), L(live cable). Please refer to the following figure. There is a shortcut way to check these thee cables connection are standard or not (not the accurate check).
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For N (Neutral cable) Turn the digital multimeter to 750V AC, use your one hand to hold the metal end, and then the other hand insert the pen to the N port of the socket. See the following figure. If the multimeter shows 0, then you can see current N cable connection is standard.
Appendix H Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Toxic or Hazardous Materials or Elements Component Name Cr VI PBDE Sheet ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Metal(Case) Plastic Parts ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ (Panel) ○ ○ ○ ○ ○...
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